Author Archives: Jamaal Abdul-Alim

A growing number of policy-makers, higher education officials and others are lamenting lackluster college completion rates and soaring student loan debt loads among college students in the United States. The problem is particularly pronounced among Black students. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, the […]

Same-day voter registration, early voting and touch screen voting machines are among a series of new options that Washington, D.C. voters have at their disposal during and leading up to the Sept. 14 primary election. “The district decided that it’s time we become a model for the nation and implement the kind of reforms that […]

Washington, D.C. — Leaders of an embattled Afrocentric charter school fought back a school board effort to shut the school down and pleaded for a chance to build on the 10-year-old school’s legacy of success and to correct its errors. “We are asking that you please do not revoke our charter,” Cheryl Journiette, board chair […]